Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for March 16, 2025

Go with it, Darryl. Who’s going to guess THAT word salad? That’s even better than “Correct horse battery staple.”

Then it says, sorry you need some capitals, numbers, symbols.

Just replace the “for” with a “4” and you have a pretty strong password, but if this the beginning of a loan process, you might go for a shorter one- you’ll be typing it a lot.

Good luck typing that in without mistakes.

That’s one long password!

How about this for a password: IcannotrememberMy3#%5password.

That was pretty strooong passwd.

Leave it as just knockitoff and add a few numbers.

Strange that Darryl and Wanda aren’t equipped with a password tool…

And then prove to a robot that you are a human.

Why do kids always feel the urge to annoy their parents when they’re busy with something important?

Would like to make an auto payment for an acct but there is a box that needs to be filled with something but there is no explanation as to what. No one seems to know when I’ve made inquiries.

32M@ny

WINDOWS PASSWORD

WINDOWS: Please enter your new password.

USER: potato

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must be more than 8 characters.

USER: boiled potato

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must contain 1 numerical character.

USER: 1 boiled potato

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot have blank spaces.

USER: 20boiledpotatoes

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must contain at least one uppercase character.

USER: 20BOILEDpotatoes

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot use more than one uppercase character consecutively.

USER: 20BoIlEdPotatoesYouIdiotGiveMeAccessNow!

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot contain punctuation.

USER: IWillHuntYouDown20BoIlEdPotatoesYouIdiotGiveMeAccessNow

WINDOWS: SORRY, THAT PASSWORD IS ALREADY IN USE

I have four pages of user IDs and passwords because no two sites have the same requirement, especially for allowed symbols to use. Love the instruction – “check all boxes containing boxes”.

Go to the scrabble site, find an 18 character word, then change some letters to #s and special characters through in some caps.

Too long, not enough numbers or asterisks, etc…

What a nightmare

Growing up, there was no such thing as time out in our house.

I have a password book where I write them in (with some blanks) for each website.

Many of my passwords contain profanity. The SCRA site that makes you create a new account every 60 days is the worst! I rarely ask my computer to remember anything for me, but that one, sure thing.

If it weren’t for hackers and all, thered be no need for long passwords.

I’m sure you have used that one.

“Secure passwords” that most websites insist on these days are hard for humans to remember but easy for algorithms to crack. Leave us to our own devices and the “weak” passwords we’re accused of creating would actually be much harder for computers to figure out.

When you’re told to make your password between x and y characters, and include a mix of upper and lower case letters, numbers, and punctuation marks (but only certain punctuation marks), you’re creating gibberish that your brain can’t draw associations with, while simultaneously reducing by many orders of magnitude the number of permutations that a computer needs to try to generate the password at random. It winds up taking the computer a few days to stumble upon it, rather than a few centuries.

That is way too long.

During a recent password audit, it was found that a blonde was using the following password: “MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramento”. When asked why she had such a long password, she said she was told that it had to be at least 8 characters long and include at least one capital.

Invalid password. Must include a number and special character. Please enter a valid password.

Wanda, don’t make threats you are not going to carry out

For a while I used a password manager but I found a passphrase is better because I can remember it easily although I did write it down and put it in my phone’s secure folder. I’m an old man and I will forget lol

Darryl, you forgot the special characters, !#&*%!!#

I remember having to verify on a website once that I was not a robot. When it came time to choose a password, I chose IAmARobot.

I would say this is the best one I’ve read all day…and I like them all.

It’s March 17. Why are you still showing a March 16 ’toon?

CorrectHorseBatteryStaple

Funny…..